Committee for operative management of national economy of the Soviet Union (Russian: Комитет по оперативному управлению народным хозяйством, romanizedKomitet po operativnomu upravleniyu narodnym khozyaistvom) was the official name for the provisional office of state administration of the Soviet Union with government functions following dismissal of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Soviet Union on 28 August 1991.[1][2]

Committee for operative management of national economy

29th Government of the Soviet Union
Date formed28 August 1991 (1991-08-28)
Date dissolved19 December 1991 (1991-12-19) or 25 December 1991 (1991-12-25)
People and organisations
Head of stateMikhail Gorbachev
Head of governmentIvan Silayev
History
PredecessorPavlov
Successornone

The former government of Valentin Pavlov was dissolved following the failed August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev and his supporters. Ivan Silayev, who had been appointed chairman of the newly formed committee on 24 August with the task of finding a new government, was instead granted on 28 August the authority of the dissolved cabinet of ministers and de facto the office of the Premier. The dissolution of the committee had been declared by Russian President Boris Yeltsin through presidential decree on 19 December[3] (without confirmation by Soviet President Gorbachev),[4] the deputy chairs retired on that day, but the chair and ministers continued to work until the resignation of President Gorbachev on 25 December.

On 5 September 1991 the Inter-Republican Economic Committee of the USSR[5] (headed by Silayev also) was established as an additional, more important and powerful body and was on 14 November transformed into the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Community, a body which sought to become an international body tasked with coordinating the economies of the remaining and former Soviet republics. Yet, the national Soviet Committee for operative management continued to work alongside the Inter-Republican/Interstate Committee and function as the nation's government until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Ministries

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Ministry Minister Took office Left office
Chairman of the Committee Ivan Silayev 24 August 1991 25 December 1991
Deputy Chairmen Arkady Volsky 24 August 1991 19 December 1991
Yury Luzhkov 24 August 1991 29 October 1991
Grigory Yavlinsky 24 August 1991 19 December 1991
Minister of Finance Vladimir Rayevsky (acting)[6] 28 August 1991 25 December 1991
Minister of Economy Yevgeny Saburov 28 August 1991 25 December 1991
Minister of Trade Alexander Khlystov 28 August 1991 25 December 1991
Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Valery Mangazeyev 28 August 1991 25 December 1991
Minister of Foreign Affairs Boris Pankin (acting) 28 August 1991 18 November 1991
Minister of External Relations Eduard Shevardnadze 19 November 1991 19 December 1991
Minister of Defence Yevgeny Shaposhnikov 29 August 1991 25 December 1991
Minister of Interior Victor Barannikov 29 August 1991 19 December 1991
Minister of Culture Nikolai Gubenko 7 September 1991 27 November 1991
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Nikolai Kolosov (acting)[7] 28 August 1991 25 December 1991

Committees

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Committee Chairman Period
Chairman of State Committee for State Security (KGB) Vadim Bakatin 29 August – 25 December 1991

References

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  1. ^ Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 28 августа 1991 г. № 2367-I «О недоверии Кабинету Министров СССР»
  2. ^ Комитет четырех: хорошее правительство в отсутствие страны
  3. ^ Указ Президента РСФСР от 19.12.1991 г. № 299
  4. ^ Биография: Силаев Иван Степанович — Правители России и Советского Союза
  5. ^ Закон СССР от 5 сентября 1991 года № 2392-I «Об органах государственной власти и управления Союза ССР в переходный период»
  6. ^ Алексеев М.Ю., Пачкалов А.В. Министры финансов от Российской империи до наших дней./ Издательство: Альпина паблишер бизнес. М. 2019. ISBN 978-5-6042319-6-8
  7. ^ «В США Ельцин нес ахинею». Последний министр труда СССР — о крахе страны, бастующих шахтерах Донбасса и пьяных толпах в Москве
General
Government offices
Preceded by Governments of the Soviet Union
28 August 1991 – 25 December 1991
Succeeded by